FOREIGN TRADE

9044
MEMORANDUM OF I. I. RADCHENKO\
Deputy Commissar of Foreign Trade, Comrade Radchenko.
[September 15, 1921]

I request that you urgently send the following information with the bearer of this document:

1) What quantity of santonin is in the Foreign Trade [organization].
2) Where, in which warehouses, and to whom do the warehouses belong where it is stored.
3) How much has been sold, at what price, and where.
4) By what procedure and through whom is it being sold.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

9043
ANNOTATIONS ON THE REPORT OF THE PKVT ON SANTONIN.
[September 16, 1921]

In response to your letter of September 15, No. 860, we report the following data on santonin reserves and production:

1) There is in Moscow at the Bukharin customs house 600 puds.
2) Arrived from Turkestan these days and should be transferred to the Bukharin customs houses (reserves existing as of January 1, 1921) 125 puds. 15 funts.

Total in Moscow: 725 puds. 15 funts.

3) At the Chikmen factory, probable production for the current year: 152 puds.
4) To London via Reval was sent in 2 shipments, a total of 150 boxes, 7,500 kilos, approximately 465 puds.
5) Sold in London: 1st batch, 40 boxes; being sold at the price of 73½ pounds sterling per kilo.

6) The factory has reserves of wormseed for 1-1½ years; production continues, but semi-finished product (non-crystallized santonin), which in price is nearly equal to finished santonin and which, as it is produced, is planned (on the basis of today's discussions with the Chief Pharmaceutical [Administration]) to be sent and stored in Moscow. Anticipated production volume for 1921: 245 puds.

600 + 125 puds. = 725 puds.
7,500 : 16 = 468 puds.
468 p. 5,425 th. rubles.
73.5 ×
— 1,176
p[ounds]
s[terling]
puds. — approx.
10 th. r. in gold

1,176 × 725 = 852,600 = approx. 7 mill. r. in gold

* Printed from a typewritten copy. Ed.